Gathering Dust in the Afternoon Light by auntietk
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Some of the houses in Bodie are open to visitors, and have wire mesh across doorways that allow camera lenses to get in but keep people out.
Even with a limited point of view, two artists standing in the same place can easily come up with two different visions. Check out Bill's version of the same space.
Comments (30)
photosynthesis
I like the soft, subtle color tones - it fits the subject matter. As does the composition & careful balance of light & shadow. Outstanding. And now I need to go check out Bill's version...
wysiwig
Sounds like me now that I am retired. As soon as I saw this I knew it must be Bodie. The atmosphere is very fitting for a ghost town. Excellent work.
giulband
It is a very great shot under every kind of consideration!!!!!!!!!!!!!
durleybeachbum
Really very fascinating to compare your image and Bill's! Your colour version engages me with the long gone occupants, whereas the mono one for some reason does not. Both are excellent but so different.
whaleman
Aha, time for duelling photos...I will probably like both of them equally!
jayfar
Intriguing and a super shot Tara.
helanker
OH Yes, what a difference from Bill´s Photo. Here it looks more gently, but I still get the same feeling, when I see it. Abandoned in a hurry. You got such a lovely light in this and it seems, it once has been a really cozy little home :)
etoiledumatin
Belle composition une atmosphère qui nous replonge dans le siècle dernier.
PHELINAS
Excellent games of shadows and lightings! Wonderful, Tara!!!!!
FredNunes
This is an impressive shot. :-)
Rob2753
It's amazing how a colour version and a monochrome version of the scene create such different feelings in the eye of the beholder, wonderfully taken and thank you both for the different perspectives
rickclark
Excellent shot. I'd love to be doing what you are. Rick
Populus
Great shot!
bebopdlx
Amazing.
bobrgallegos
Super capture!! Seems to me as they left in a hurry.
Faemike55
This is a great shot and it is very cool but it doesn't present the edginess that Bill's photo has Great capture
Wolfenshire
I absolutely love this shot!!!! There is just a feeling here I relate to.
emmecielle
Fantastic image and great lighting! :)
moochagoo
My God, I would have made hundred of picture. Perfect mood and lighting.
sharky_
You both have an interesting story to the pictures. Outstanding work. Aloha
kenmo
Cool setting and lighting....
RodS
This has a very haunting feel, Tara - most appropriate for the season.. One definitely gets the feel of a story left untold.. What happened that resulted in the table setting to be left in place? The viewer is left to imagine and make up his/her own story. I love stuff like this! Now to check out Bill's version....
JuliSonne
Really nice homey and nostalgic.....just a little dusty smile Fine composition!!
pauldeleu
Nicely seen and a great shot.
MrsRatbag
Sad and ghostly, indeed; if it weren't for the dust everywhere (and boy, is that ever thick!) it would seem they'd just stepped out after breakfast. Amazing to see these old relics left just the way they were. Gives me all kinds of weird feelings to think of someone looking at my leavings a few hundred years on! Great work, Tara!
dochtersions
What a superb mood, light, shadow and earth-tones are to admire here, Tara. A good feeling it brings along.
aksirp
In thiscase I like more the soft color and use of light in yours! stunning to see two variations!
kgb224
Superb capture Tara. God bless.
anmes
Great atmosphere
myrrhluz
Yours has a much softer look than Bill's. The light is caressing the scene and drawing a gentle veil over the harsher aspects. There is a melancholy, but it is a melancholy of things lost without the sinister undertones. I find the way the lamp looks in the two shots very interesting. Bill's seems to hover, the attachment lost in shadows. Yours is a part of the room, and brings thoughts to me of it casting a friendly light, in better times. Your capture makes me think of the family, or couple who lived here. I wonder about them and their life, as much as I wonder about their hasty departure. I like the light coming through the crack on the inside of the cabinet door and the gentle variation of color. Beautiful capture. It's very interesting to see the differences between the two shots.